Free gnome SVG files

How a gnome is cut in one colour

A gnome is three shapes stacked on each other: a hat, a nose and a beard. To keep them apart in a single colour, a thin seam is cut under the edge of the hat and a ring is cut round the nose. Both stop short, leaving bridges at the sides of the hat and under the nose, so the whole gnome lifts off the mat in one piece.

With the file at 100 mm tall those seams are a little over 1 mm wide. That is fine for vinyl and card at 100 mm and above. For anything smaller, or for wood, use the cute little gnome or the gnome silhouette, which have broader cuts or none at all.

Two colours without layers

For a red hat on a white beard, cut the same gnome twice, once in each colour. Keep the hat from the red copy and the beard, hands and feet from the white, trimming along the seam under the hat. The nose can be a third scrap in pink or tan: it is a plain circle, about 10 mm across with the gnome at 100 mm tall.

How to open the files

• Cricut Design Space: choose Upload, pick the SVG, and add it to the canvas. Set the width you want; the shape is already welded.
• Silhouette Studio: Designer Edition and above open the SVG. The free Basic Edition does not, so open the DXF instead.
• LightBurn, xTool Creative Space and Glowforge: import the SVG, then set the layer to cut, score or engrave.
• Inkscape, Illustrator and Affinity: open the SVG. It is a plain filled path, so you can recolour it, add a stroke or combine it with your own work.
• Printing or sublimation: use the PNG, which has a transparent background.

Each design page lists the file’s narrowest part at seven sizes, so you can tell whether it will survive at the size you plan to cut.

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